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The WCF "Orcas" release (the WCF from .NET Framework 3.5 aka WCF 2.0) makes it so much easier to use your WCF service in conjunction with ASP.NET AJAX (formerly known as 'Atlas'). Before Orcas you would build a AJAX enabled (web) service by adding the [ScriptService] attribute to the service...
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You read it right. There is a very cheap way to shield exception information from an ASP.NET web service. Mind you, this is available only from ASP.NET 2.0 (and upwards presumably). So, what is exception shielding for web services? Preventing potentially valuable exception information from leaking to...
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Part 1 left us able to call web services that are local. In part 2 we will take a look at web services that are remote to our own website that hosts the Atlas enabled page. Seems like a trivial thing to do. I mean, it’s “just” a soap call over HTTP, right? The challenge lies in the...
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The March and May 2006 CTP’s of Atlas introduced two formal ways to call web services from a web browser. The difference is in the location of the web services. Local web services Remote or external web services Atlas makes it really easy to call web services when they are local, i.e. reside in...